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2 It was also published later in The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 26 (1864): 807-809.
3 Wilford Woodruffs Journal, Volume 5, 1 January 1857 to 31 December 1861, Scott G. Kenny, ed. (Salt Lake City: Signature Book, 1984), 38.
Woodruff’s role as Church Historian
Thomas G. Alexander’s excellent biography, Things in Heaven and Earth: The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1991), 179.
4 Woodruffs Journal, 5:40.
Deseret News, 24 Mar.-8 Sept. 1858.
5 "History of Luke Johnson," Deseret News, 19 May 1858, 1.
6 "History of the Church, 1839 to Circa 1882." The McLellin account is in Book A-1, 161-63.
Dean C. Jessee, ed., The Papers of Joseph Smith: Autobiographical and Historical Writings, Vol. 1 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1989), 367-68.
Times and Seasons 5 (15 Apr. 1844): 496-97.
7 "History of William McLellin," Deseret News, 12 May 1858, 1.
8 George Q. Cannon, Life of Joseph Smith, The Prophet (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1888), 123-24.
9 Andrew Jenson, A Latter-Day Saints’ Biographical Encyclopedia (Salt Lake City: The Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901), 82-83.
10 Joseph Smith, Jr., History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Period I, History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, ed. B.H. Roberts, 6 vols., 2d ed. rev. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1955), 9
McLellin, 17
Alma 1:15
Alma 30
Dan P. McAdams, Stories We Live By: Personal Myths and the Making of Self (New York: William and Morrow and Co., Inc., 1993),
Paul Connerton, How Societies Remember (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
David Thelan, "Memory and American History," Journal of American History 75 (1989): 1117-29.
11 Davis’s The Story of the Church.
12 Orson F. Whitney, in Conference Reports (7 Apr. 1917), 42.
13 Ibid.
D&C 67:5-8
14 Charles H. Hart, in Conference Reports (4 Apr. 1926), 132-33.
15 E. Cecil McGavin, The Historical Background of the Doctrine and Covenants (Salt Lake City: Paragon Printing Co., 1949), 174.
16 William E. Berrett, Teachings of the Doctrine and Covenants, Course 27 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Sunday School General Board, 1954), 4-5.
17 Ibid.
18 Calvin N. Smith, "McLellin Became Enemy to Church," Church News, 27 Oct. 1985, 7, 13.
19 "History of the Church," 163.
20 Doctrine and Covenants, Section 1 through Section 102, Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Supplement (Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1978), 144-47.
21 The Doctrine and Covenants and Church History, Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual (Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1989), 17.
22 The Doctrine and Covenants, Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual (Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1991), 39-40.
24 Donna Hill, Joseph Smith: The First Mormon (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1977), 141.
25 Milton V. Backman, Jr., The Heavens Resound, A History of the Latter-day Saints in Ohio, 1830-1838 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1983), 90-91.
Joseph Smith and the Doctrine and Covenants (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, Co., 1992), 2-3.
26 Dan Vogel, Religious Seekers and the Advent of Mormonism (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1988), 110.
David Whitmer, An Address to All Believers in Christ (Nauvoo, IL: New Nauvoo Neighbor Press, 1976), 51-55. It is the reprint of the 1887 original.
27 Lyndon W. Cook, The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith (Provo, UT: Seventy’s Mission Bookstore, 1981), 105-108.
28 Dean Jessee’s "The Reliability of Joseph Smith’s History," Journal of Mormon History 3 (1976): 23-46;
Howard Searle, "Early Mormon Historiography: Writing the History of the Mormons, 1830-1858," Ph. D diss., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1979.
29 Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Century I, 6 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1930)
McLellin’s role at the November 1831 conference.
Davis Bitton, "B. H. Roberts as an Historian," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 3 (Winter 1968): 25-44;
Bitton’s and Leonard J. Arrington’s Mormons and Their Historians (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1988), 69-86.
30 Howard C. Searle, "Willard Richards as Historian," Brigham Young University Studies 31 (Spring 1991): 45-46.
32 William E. McLellin to Joseph Smith III, 10 Jan. 1861, from Linden, Genesee County, Michigan, and McLellin to Smith, July 1872, from Independence, Missouri (originals in archives, the Auditorium, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Independence, MO; hereafter RLDS archives).
33 Ensign of Liberty 1 (Jan. 1848): 60-61.
34 Ibid., 61.
35 William E. McLellin journal, 30 Oct. 1831, McLellin papers, LDS archives.
37 William E. McLellin to Samuel McLelin, 4 Aug. 1832, 4, RLDS archives.
38 Dean C. Jessee, The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 19841, 16-17
William McLellin to Samuel McLellin, 4 Aug. 1832
"The History of Luke Johnson," Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 26 (1864): 835.
Joseph Smith, Jr., to Emma Smith, 6 June 1832, in Jessee, Personal Writings of Joseph Smith, 238-39
William McLellin to Samuel McLellin, 4 Aug. 1832
39 Deut. 17:6; 19:15
Matt. 18:16
2 Cor. 13:1
David F. Freedman, et al., eds., The Expositor’s Bible Commentary, Vol. 3 (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1992), 114-15;
The Anchor Bible Dictionary, Vol. 4 (New York: Doubleday, 1992), 249.
Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1966), 436-37.
40 Donald Q. Cannon and Lyndon Cook, eds., Far West Record: Minutes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1844 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1983), 26-28.
41 Vogel, 110.
42 Thomas O’Dea, The Mormons (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957), 156-60;
Vogel, 144.
43 D&C 28:2-6
Vogel, 104-13, 144
44 Ensign of Liberty 1 (Aug. 1849): 98-99.
45 F. Henry Edwards, The Edwards Commentary on the Doctrine and Covenants (Independence, MO: Herald House Publishing, 1986), 256-59,
D&C 8 and 9
46 Cannon and Cook, Far West Record (25 Oct. 1831), 20.
47 Messenger and Advocate, Feb. 1835, 80.
Heber C. Kimball, "Extract from Journal," Times and Seasons 6 (1845): 868;
"The History of Heber C. Kimball," Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 26 (1864): 568;
Benjamin F. Johnson to George S. Gibbs, 1903, in E. Dale Lebaron, "Benjamin Franklin Johnson: Colonizer, Public Servant, and Church Leader," M.A. thesis, Brigham Young University, 1967, 325.
48 Smith, History of the Church, 1:226,
Cannon and Cook, Far West Record, 28
49 Smith, History of the Church, 1:226.
50 Excerpt from Joseph Smith’s 1835-38 diary in Jessee, Personal Writings of Joseph Smith, 72.
51 Excerpts of Scott’s remarks are recorded in my diary, 28 Oct. 1985.
52 Richard Bushman, Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984),
53 Vogel, 110-11,
RLDS historian, William Russell, "The Latter Day Saint Priesthood: A Reflection of ’Catholic’ Tendencies in Nineteenth Century American Religion," Restoration Studies (Independence, MO: Temple School, 1980), 232-41,
Lee Benson, The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy: Nezo York as a Test Case (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1961),
54 N. Zeld and Roberta Ash, "Social Movement Organizations: Growth, Decay, and Change," Social Forces, Mar. 1966, 327-41.
More current is Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh’s Becoming an EX: The Process of Role Exit (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988).
Roger D. Launius and W.B. Spillman, eds., Let Contention Cease: The Dynamics of Dissent in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Independence, MO: Graceland/Park Press, 1991).
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2 Andrew Jenson, A Latter-day Saint’s Biographical Encyclopedia (Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901), 82-83.
3 Orson F. Whitney, "Conference Talk," Conference Reports (Apr. 1917), 42-43.
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5 Charles H. Hart, "Conference Talk," Conference Reports (Apr. 1926), 132-33.
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26 Inez S. Davis, The Story of the Church (Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1983), 123.
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29 Robert J. Woodford, "How the Revelations in the Doctrine and Covenants were Received and Compiled," Ensign 15 (Jan. 1985): 27-33.
30 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Doctrine and Covenants and Church History, Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Supplement (Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1985), 79-82.
31 Calvin N. Smith, "McLellin became enemy of Church," Church News, 27 Oct. 1985,7,13.
32 F. Henry Edwards, The Edwards Commentary on the Doctrine and Covenants (Independence, MO: Herald House Publishing, 1986), 256-59.
33 Michael J. Preece, Learning to Love the Doctrine and Covenants (Salt Lake City: MJP Press, 1988).
34 Dan Vogel, Religious Seekers and the Advent ofMormomsm (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1988), 110.
35 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Doctrine and Covenants, Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual (Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1989), 17.
36 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church History in the Fullness of Times: The History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: Church Educational System, 1989), 119.
37 Milton V. Backman, Jr., Joseph Smith and the Doctrine and Covenants (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1992), 2-3.
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